Tag Archives: Capitalism

The future of Obamacare moderated by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. Cruz and Sanders — two senators with diametrically opposed views of government’s role in health care — faced off at the primetime event and fielded questions from the audience, consisting of both defenders and critics of the Affordable Care Act.

By David R. Legates Experimentation is a major tool in the scientist’s arsenal. We can put the same strain of bacteria into two Petri dishes, for example, and compare the relative effects of two different antibiotics. What if we could do the same with economic systems? We could take a country and destroy its political […]

Is capitalism moral or greedy? If it’s based on greed and selfishness, what’s the best alternative economic system? Perhaps socialism? And if capitalism is moral, what makes it so? Walter Williams, a renowned economist at George Mason University, answers these questions and more. Is capitalism moral? Walter Williams says yes, it is the most moral […]

Hillary Clinton is not the only prominent, rich liberal who is having trouble articulating their vast concern for the poor and income inequality. Recently, there has been a rash of major liberal figures downplaying the fact that American capitalism has been quite good for them, while attempting to hamstring it for the rest of America. […]

An Israeli startup said on Tuesday that it was working to develop a bio-organic system that can recharge a smartphone battery in just 30 seconds. Tel Aviv-based StoreDot’s prototype battery and charger is currently being tested with Samsung’s Galaxy phones, but the startup’s founder and CEO Doron Myersdorf told AFP that a product compatible with […]

President Obama occasionally cozies up to the corporate world, especially during fund-raising time, and delivers a modicum of support for business. But have no doubt about it, this is a man who honors the power of government over the marketplace. Here are the Top 10 Obama Attacks on Capitalism: 1. Spread wealth around: This famous […]

Attacking capitalism never seems to go out of style. Over the past 100 years, few institutions have been attacked so fiercely, so falsely and so foolishly. Yet capitalism’s resilience continues. Governments based on the idea that capitalism is evil and that the state can create wealth by controlling an entire economy have risen and fallen […]

Sen. Rand Paul vowed Friday to push a proposal to create “economic freedom zones” in Detroit that would slash taxes and regulatory red tape in an attempt to revive the city’s economy. Speaking at the Detroit Economic Club, Mr. Paul, a potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate, said that the model could be used in cities […]

(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) says increasing access to health care and lowering health care costs are at the heart of his bill that stands as an alternative to Obamacare. “We drafted this bill with a working group of members of the Republican Study Committee, which I chair,” Scalise told Fox News’s Neil Cavuto […]

As a nation clasped to its capitalist foundations, the United States is unquestionably the global leader for free market policy and laissez-faire economics. The egalitarian, people-first actions of our forefathers and country leaders have helped establish what we’ve long considered to be the land of opportunity. Perhaps nothing has exemplified this more recently than the […]